Ethan Ampadu is excited to see how his Leeds United teammate Charlie Crew develops after training alongside him for Wales.
Ampadu was speaking in an interview with BBC Sport on the first international break of the season, where he was quizzed on the potential of Crew.
As per reliable Leeds academy Twitter page LUFC Youth, Crew trained with the Wales first team on Monday having been initially called up to the U21s.
Crew has not officially been added to the senior squad for upcoming matches against South Korea and Latvia, but the opportunity to train with the first team at just 17 shows how highly rated he is.
He plays the same position as Ampadu and so training alongside him for both club and country will only benefit him, given how good Leeds‘ £7 million summer signing is.
Ampadu ‘excited’ to see Leeds’ Crew develop
Speaking on the potential of Crew, Ampadu says he is ‘really excited’ to watch him develop but also stressed the importance of not putting too much pressure on him.
He said: “Of course, yesterday in the training session, you can always feel a bit of pressure when you go and train with the first team but I think he showed he embraced it and enjoyed it. You don’t have to put any pressure on him, it’s just about him developing as he’d doing.
“I have been there and it’s all about the development stage and getting used to playing around within a first team whether that’s here or at Leeds. Obviously I know him and just really excited to see him embrace it.”
Despite his age, Crew is already one of Leeds’ stand-out players in the U21s having started all four of their PL2 matches so far.
Crew is yet to even make the bench for a first team match at Leeds but is extremely highly-rated at the club and could be the next off the production line after Archie Gray.
It will be interesting to see if Crew does enough in the U21s to earn a first taste of senior action at Leeds at some point this season.
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